Portland, Oregon - Portland, Oregon, Its History and Builders : in Connection with the An (part 9 of 25)

William Montgomery Gregory

William Montgomery Gregory, a practitioner at the Portland bar, was born in Oneida, New York, December 2, 1852. The family is of French descent. The great-grandfather was an officer of the French army and became a coffee planter of Haiti. His son, Caspar R. Gregory, was a refugee from the island of Haiti at the time of the revolution there and changed the spelling of the name from Gregoire to its present form. He was a sea captain and was born on the island of Haiti. The father of William M. Gregory, the Rev. Caspar R. Gregory, D. D., was a native of Philadelphia and a minister of the Presbyterian church. He served for thirteen years as pastor of Oneida, New York, in which church a tablet was erected to his memory and later was pastor of the church at Bridgetown, New Jersey, while at the time of his death was a professor in the Lincoln University of Pennsylvania. He was a brother of Dr. Henry D. Gregory, for many years vice president of Girard College of Philadelphia. The mother of William M, Gregory, who bore the maiden name of Mary L. Montgomery, was a native of Philadelphia and a sister of Thomas Montgomery, long a distinguished resident of that city.

William Montgomery Gregory pursued his education in the Oneida Seminary of New York, and in the West Jersey Academy at Bridgetown. He studied law in the office of Joseph M. Pile, of Philadelphia, at the same time taking a practical course in the law department of the University of Pennsylvania. He was admitted to the bar before the court of common pleas of Philadelphia early in 1874 and before the supreme court of Pennsylvania in 1876. Soon afterward he went to California with his brother Henry S. Gregory, now and for many years a well known citizen of the Coeur d'Alene mining region in Idaho, and our subject was engaged in the practice of law in San Bernardino county until the spring of 1879. I" July, 1876, he was admitted to practice before the supreme court of that state.

About three years later Mr. Gregory removed to Portland, where he has since been engaged in general practice, and in the intervening period of fourteen years has been accorded a large and distinctively representative clientage, connecting him with much of the important litigation tried in the courts of the state. He is a member of both the county and state bar associations and is regarded among his fellow members of the bar as a careful and able attorney, a wise counselor, never failing to give a thorough preparation of his cases and his devotion to his clients' interests is proverbial.

On the I2th of February, 1885, Mr. Gregory was married to Miss Lenore Sparks, a daughter of Nathan M. and Mary (Hill) Sparks, the latter a representative of the prominent Hill family of Oregon. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Gregory have been bom three children who are yet living: William Lair Hill Gregory, a newspaper man who is now a student in the University of Washington ; Lenore, who is well known as an accomplished violinist in Portland and is now further

The family reside in the beautiful residence district of Portland known as Irvington. In his political views Mr. Gregory is a republican and was one of the committee which formulated the Australian ballot law which has practically done away with the buying of votes in Oregon. He is not a politician but has always taken a deep interest in good government and favors every project which stands for the opposition of misrule in municipal affairs or clean politics and for a righteous administration of the law.

Hampton Kelly

When Portland had not even attained the distinction of being a good-sized village, it being but a small collection of log cabins and stores on Front street, Hampton Kelly arrived in Oregon and took up a claim, so that he became closely connected with the early agricultural development of the state. He was a young man of eighteen years at the time of his arrival in 1848, his birth having occurred in Pulaski county, Kentucky, on the i6th of April, 1830. His father was the Rev. Clinton Kelly, a minister of the Methodist church, who engaged in preaching the gospel while his sons carried on the farm.

Hampton Kelly spent the greater part of his youth in his native state and acquired his education in the schools there. He was eighteen years of age when he accompanied his parents on the long and tedious trip across the plains of Oregon, where the family secured a donation claim. He continued to assist his father in developing the home place until twenty-two years of age, when he was married. He had previously taken a donation claim for himself near the Clinton Kelly school and took his bride there to live. He had a house built of sawed logs, nine inches wide and two inches thick, and in this pioneer home, Mr. and Mrs. Kelly began their domestic life, meeting with the usual experiences and hardships of life on the frontier. They lived upon that place for about six years, at the end of which time Mr. Kelly purchased a tract of land from Mr. Long, upon which he resided until 1882, successfully and energetically carrying on the work of tilling his fields and cultivating his place. He then removed to eastern Oregon and purchased a farm in Wasco county. There he took up a homestead in addition to his other place and continued to reside there until called to his final rest.

It was on the 30th of January, 1853, in his father's old log cabin, that Mr. Kelly was united in marriage to Miss Margaret Fitch, a daughter of David and Sarah (Wiggins) Fitch, formerly of Illinois. Mrs. Kelly was born in Coshocton county, Ohio, on the 22d of March, 1827. Her father devoted his life to farming, and both he and his wife died in the east, the father passing away in 1844, and the mother in 1878. Mrs. Kelly came to Oregon in 1852 across the plains, walking most of the way and driving stock. She started from Clark county, Illinois, on the 6th of April and reached Portland on the nth of November. The party camped near where the steel bridge crosses the river but no iron or wooden structure then spanned the stream. Mrs. Kelly has since lived in Oregon and is one of the members of the Pioneers' Society. She can relate many interesting incidents of the early days, and now at the age of eighty-three years, looks back over events which have shaped the history of the city and state, her memory forming a connecting link between the primitive past and the progressive present.

Unto Mr. and Mrs. Kelly were born nine children, of whom the eldest died in infancy. Zora M., now deceased, was the wife of J. R. Truman of Portland and had three children: Delmer L. and Stella, both deceased, and Gertrude. Helen married A. B. Manley of Portland. Clinton died in infancy. P. J., of

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Woodstock, who was road supervisor for nine years, married Carrie McClure and has two children, Glenn C. and Roy, the latter now deceased. L. B., of The Dalles, married Zilpha Snodgrass and has one son, Floyd. Linus, of Woodstock, married Fannie Hessong and has one child, Leata. Myrtle died at the age of thirteen months. Lester, living on the old home place in eastern Oregon, married Susan Crowfoot.

The death of Mr. Kelly occurred October i6, 1898, and his remains were interred upon his ranch. He had donated four acres for a cemetery there, reserving a lot for the family. He also donated seven acres to the Methodist church, and built the house of worship. He was a lifelong member of that church, served as one of its stewards, and took an active part in its work. He contributed liberally to the support of churches and was a warm champion of the cause of education. His father donated an acre of ground upon which v.as built what is now known as the Clinton Kelly school. Our subject was equally loyal in his advocacy of good roads, realizing of what great value to the rural community are well kept highways. He stood for progress and improvement along all lines, but mostly in the field of intellectual and moral advancement, believing that individual and community interests are promoted thereby. He left to his family the priceless heritage of a good name, and an example that is indeed worthy of emulation.

Rev. Joseph Rogers Wilson

Rev. Joseph R. Wilson was born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, May 14, 1847, a son of Rev. Samuel and Anna Maria (Rogers) Wilson. His father was a graduate of Jefferson College, Pennsylvania, and Princeton Theological Seminary and was awarded the degree of D. D. on account of his distinguished services in the cause of the church. Our subject was reared under the most favoring influences for a useful life. He attended a private academy and later matriculated at Washington and Jefferson College, from which he was graduated with the degree of A. B. in 1867. He then entered the Western Theological Seminary at Allegheny, Pennsylvania, and was graduated from that institution in 1870. He was called as a home missionary of the Presbyterian church at Normal, Illinois, where he remained from 1870 to 1871, and in a similar capacity at Erie, Pennsylvania, from 1872 to 1879. During these years he continued his studies, especially in New Testament Greek and Ancient Greek. In 1879 he was called to the chair of Greek in Parsons College, Iowa, and there he continued for ten years. In 1889 he associated with Dr. S. R. Johnston of the faculty of that college and removed to Portland, here establishing the Portland Academy, which soon became known as one of the best conducted educational institutions of the northwest.

Mr. Wilson's influence is felt in many quarters outside of the work which commands his chief attention. He was a charter member of the Historical Society of Oregon and has been vice president of the society since 1900. He has for many years been an active worker in behalf of prohibition and was president of the Anti-Saloon League of Oregon for two years, from 1903 to 1905, and again in 1906 and 1907. He was a member of the first and second conservation committees of Oregon and president of the Board of Higher Curriculum of Oregon. He was also chairman of the committee on Congresses at the Lewis & Clarke Fair, in 1905.

Mr. Wilson was united in marriage at Fairview, Pennsylvania, in 1875, to Viola Eaton, a daughter of Johnston Eaton, Jr., and granddaughter of the Rev. Johnston Eaton, chaplain of the military post at Erie, Pennsylvania, during the war of 1812 and for many years pastor of the Presbyterian church at Fairview and West Mill Creek in Erie county. Three children have been born to

Mr. and Mrs. Wilson: John Fleming, who married Elena Burt of Newport,. Oregon, a daughter of the late Judge Burt, of Lincoln county; Margaret Adelaide; and Helen Adams.

Although identified with the Presbyterian church, Mr. Wilson has always been in friendly relations with representatives of other churches and is in warm sympathy with all earnest seekers after truth although they may differ from him in their views and beliefs.

Edward L. Thompson

Edward L. Thompson is prominent among those whose labors are an effective force in the upbuilding of Portland - a city whose history is yet in the making. Upon the firm foundation laid by the pioneers the men of the present day are uprearing a greater Portland - a city whose eflforts are attracting the attention of the entire country. With the substantial growth which it is undergoing Mr. Thompson is closely associated and his enterprise and foresight in the management and conduct of important business interests are proving a valuable element in the upbuilding of a greater municipality.

He was born in Albany, Linn county, Oregon, August 24, 1863. His father, David M. Thompson, a native of Iowa, came to this state in 1852, settling in Scottsburg. Later he removed to Albany, where he engaged in the retail harness and saddlery business until his death, which occurred on the 9th of November, 1879, when he was forty-nine years of age. He was a colonel of the Oregon Volunteers in the Civil war and was always an active and influential factor m the life of the community in which he lived. He was a Mason and Odd Fellow of high rank, serving as district deputy grand master in the former fraternity. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Louisa Burkhart, was a daughter of John Burkhart, one of the worthy pioneers of 1847. Her death occurred in 1907 when she was seventy-four years of age. The Burkhart family were from Indiana and were among the earliest settlers of Linn county, Oregon.

Edward L. Thompson continued his education, which was begun in the public schools, by study in Albany College, and upon the death of his father assumed the management of the harness and saddlery business which he conducted with growing success until 1890, when he removed to Portland. He was fire insurance adjuster for the Northwest Fire & Marine and North British & Mercantile Insurance Companies, covering Oregon, Washington, Idaho and California. He occupied that position until 1898 and then formed a partnership with J. L. Hartman and H. L. Powers under the firm style of Hartman, Thompson & Powers, for the conduct of a real-estate and brokerage business. This relation was maintained until the retirement of Mr. Powers in 1905, when the business was reorganized under the firm name of Hartman & Thompson as a private banking enterprise. In addition to the conduct of a banking business they buy and sell city property and also engage in home building. Among the properties which they have successfully handled is the Rose City Park addition.

Mr. Thompson is also president of the Ridgefield Mercantile Company of Washington, which he organized fourteen years ago and which is one of the most successful mercantile establishments of the state. He is also president of the Ridgefield State Bank, of which he was one of the organizers in 1910. He is secretary of the firm of Beall & Company, dealers in agricultural implements. He is the owner of Clover Hill Farms, a tract of four hundred acres about thirty miles north of Portland on the Columbia river, where he engages in the breeding j and importing of thoroughbred Guernsey cattle and conducts a large dairy. He was awarded the first state board of health certificate for guaranteed purity of milk. In 1909 he was elected president of the Portland Fair & Live Stock Association and is also interested in various other enterprises.

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In 1904 Mr. Thompson organized the Portland Woolen Mills, the other stock holders being W. P. Olds, W. M. Ladd, T. B. Wilcox, W. E. Pettes and F. A. Nitchy. This is an extensive and profitable industry, valued at a half million dollars and located at St. Johns, having the largest production of any woolen mill on the Pacific coast. Its sales amount to a half million dollars a year and the plant occupies five acres of ground and is equipped with its own water, light and power systems. The plant with its subsidiary buildings is a veritable city in itself, with a private dock and railway switch. It is complete in its equipment in every department and sends its product to all parts of the United States. The company has built many homes for its employes and has never had a strike among the workmen. This is due to the fact that their methods of treating their help are the exponent of justice. The business is carried on along broad plans and they pay the highest wages of any in the United States in their line. They employ most competent heads of departments and give much time, study and attention to the betterment of both the physical and mental conditions of their employes, furnishing them with every comfort and convenience possible, such as reading and rest rooms. Of the company Mr. Thompson has been treasurer and manager since its organization and its development and its attitude toward the employes is largely attributable to his efforts and his advanced ideas. He is doing a splendid work in this regard and the institution may well serve as a model to other employers. Were such methods followed the contest between labor and capital would be reduced to a minimum. Back of it all is the humanitarian spirit that recognizes the responsibilities and obligations of wealth and the brotherhood of mankind.

Mr. Thompson has a beautiful home on Portland Heights, which he erected in 1907, and a summer residence at Seaside. He was married on the 27th of March, 1884, to Miss Amanda P. Irvine, a daughter of Hon. R. A. Irvine, of Linn county. She was educated in the Albany College, where she pursued a special course in music. The two sons of this marriage are : Lewis Irvine, who in June, 1909, wedded Sadie Jackson ; and Edward A.

In his political views Mr. Thompson is an earnest republican and takes a keen interest in all civic affairs. He is interested in the Commercial Club, of which he is an active member, and also belongs to the Portland Heights Club. He has been president of the board and trustee of the First Congregational church for the past nine years and has been a member of the church from the age of fourteen. He is likewise connected with philanthropic societies and gives generous aid where charity is needed. He is a man of large athletic build whom one at once recognizes as a leader. In manner he is genial and courteous. He has great capacity for business, is ambitious and energetic and well merits the position of leadership which is accorded him. While he is achieving notable success, there is in his life history as a dominant element something beyond and above the desire for wealth - that something which finds expression in his treatment ol and relations with his employes, in his deep and helpful interest in the city and his devotion to the work of the church.

Daniel Lewis

Daniel Lewis, who from 1872 until his death, in 1904, was a resident of Oregon, owned and operated a valuable farm in the vicinity of Portland, but the property has now been divided among his children, all of whom are living in residences located on what was originally the old homestead. Mr. Lewis was bom in North Carolina in 1829 and was a son of Samuel and Sarah Lewis. His father was a soldier of the Revolutionary war, giving valiant aid to the colonists in their struggle for independence and living for many years thereafter to enjoy the fruits of liberty. He died, however, when his son Daniel was about eighteen years of age, the latter living with his mother until he was married, after which his mother lived with him. He was only four years of age when his parents removed from the south to Illinois, taking up their abode in Crawford county, and while spending his youthful days upon the farm he acquired his education in the public schools of that state. After attaining his majority, or upon the 12th of November, 1850, he was united in marriage to Miss Rachel Anderson, a daughter of Jotham and Lucinda Anderson, the former a native of New England and the latter of Kentucky. For twenty years after their marriage Daniel Lewis and his family remained residents of Illinois, but in 1872 came to Oregon where his wife and children have since lived and where he made his home until his death. He purchased one hundred and sixty-three acres of land located on what is now known as the Base Line road, and with characteristic energy turned his attention to farming, converting his place into productive fields which annually brought forth rich harvests. For many years he carried on his farm work but at length the property was divided among his children, all of whom now have homes upon the place.

Unto Mr. and Mrs. Lewis were born the following children, seven of whom survive, namely: Leander; Annie J., who is the wife of Fred R. Davis and lives at Centralia, Washington ; Herman A. ; Ulysses ; Sarah, the wife of Alexander Bell ; Lula, the wife of J. W. Mills ; and George H. One son, James, died in 1878 at the age of twenty-one years, while Edwin D. died in 1894 at the age of twenty-six years, and Frederick R. died in 1902, when thirty-three years of age.

The death of the husband and father occurred in 1904, when he had reached the age of seventy-two years. He was a member of the Baptist church to which Mrs. Lewis still belongs. She was born in 1833 and is a well preserved woman of seventy-seven years, retaining her physical and mental faculties to a remarkable degree. They made their trip to Oregon on the second through train that was run over the Southern Pacific, starting from Vincennes, Indiana, and continuing by rail to San Francisco. From that point they came on board the boat Prince Albert to Seattle, Washington, where they remained for a few months before taking up their abode in Oregon. From pioneer times the Lewis family has remained in this locality and the representatives of the name have a wide and favorable acquaintance among the early settlers and among the later arrivals in the section in which they live.

Frederick Charles King

There is perhaps no life record in this volume that indicates more clearly the value of character and of individual ability than the history of Fred C. King, who with limited opportunities started in business life and has worked his way continuously upward until he is now classed with the leading and representative real-estate men of Portland, largely engaged in handling city, farm and timber lands. Mr. King is a native of the middle west, his birth having occurred in Portland, Ionia county, Michigan, December 29, 1872, his parents being Richard D. and Mary A. King, the former a shoemaker by trade. He was born in Hardfordshire, England, in 1847, ^^d served in the English army as a member of the noted Coldstream Guards. He came to America about 1870, settling in Portland, Michigan, and in the spring of 1873 removed to Saline county, Kansas, where he secured a homestead claim, and while developing that property, in order to obtain his title, also opened a shoe shop in Brookville, in that county. Subsequently he was employed by the Union Pacific Railroad Company for about fourteen years, spending a part of the time in the fuel department and the remainder as agent. At the same period he was also engaged in farming, dairying and stock-raising. But Kansas, because of un- favorable weather conditions, which brought on the failure of crops, experienced "hard times," and Mr. King was among a large number who failed in 1888. With a hope of retrieving his losses he sought the opportunities of the Pacific coast country, arriving in Portland on the 21st of November of that year. The succeeding twelve months were fairly successful and on the 24th of December, 1889, he passed away, leaving a family of nine children, three sons and six daughters, of whom Fred C. King, the eldest, was then only fifteen years of age. The mother was born in Suffolk, England, in 1844, and had become the wife of Richard D. King in London, England, the wedding ceremony being performed in Westminster Abbey. The parents of both were farming people of England.

Fred C. King acquired his early education in two country schools near Brookville, Kansas, and also to some extent attended the Brookville public schools. His educational opportunities, however, were limited by the fact that he was reared on a farm and the work of its development and improvement allowed him little leisure time for study. It was only in the winter seasons, when the farm work could not be carried on, that he had the opportunity of attending school, and never after he was thirteen years of age. In the school of experience, however, he has learned many valuable lessons and has otherwise embraced his opportunities for mental development as a preparation for life's practical and responsible duties. The family arrived in Oregon in the fall before he was fourteen years of age, and the father died a year later, so that the older children of the family were obliged to go to work and aid the mother in the support of the younger members of the household. Later Mr. King studied the complete mechanical course as outlined by the International Correspondence School of Scranton, Pennsylvania. His experience upon the home farm three miles north of Brookville, Kansas, had largely been that of herding and caring for the stock, together with plowing, harrowing, planting grain and harvesting. He also had to milk many cows, for at different times the family kept as many as one hundred head. It was therefore only in the intervals of general farming that he could attend school up to the time when the emigration was made to Oregon in November, 1888. In the two succeeding months he engaged in cutting wood north of Mount Tabor, and in January, 1889, secured similar employment at Sullivan's gulch, near the Drubacher furniture factory. In February, March and April, 1889, he worked in the tin shops of Goldsmith & Lowenberg, on Front street, and from April until September worked in order to purchase a lot in Linntpn from Selover & Bunker. He was in the employ of that firm and also of a smelter company, who built a smelter there, and he cleared land and removed rock for the grade. In September, 1889, he secured a position with the General Electric Company at Oregon City removing rock under the falls. In October, November and December of the same year and in fact until June, 1890, he worked on the section in East Portland for the Oregon & California Railroad Company, and at a later date began laying track for the car line to Woodstock. From the 14th of July, 1890, until the ist of August, 1893, he was employed in the Inman & Paulsen sawmill, after which he was employed as boiler maker until the 27th of December, 1904, the first four years as apprentice and then as journeyman in the Southern Pacific shops here and also at Roseburg and Ashland. On the latter date he resigned because of his health. On the 28th of November, 1904, he leased the building at 309 Jefferson street for apartment house purposes and is still managing this, which is known as The King. On the 1st of January, 1905, he turned his attention to the real-estate business in connection with F. O. Northup for six months, or until July i, 1905. Since that date he has engaged in the general real-estate business, handling farm, city and timber lands. He is recognized as one of the prominent realestate men of Portland and in the intervening five years has handled much valuable property and negotiated many important realty transfers. He now owns several different properties in this city and in other parts of the state, including the lot in Linnton which he purchased twenty years ago with a summer's hard labor. In September, 1907, he became one of the incorporators and stockholders of the State Laundry Company, in which he is still interested. In 1910 the King Brothers & Shea Iron Works of Portland was incorporated, of which company Mr. King is secretary and treasurer. The sheer force of his character, energy and ability have brought him to a prominent position in business circles and he has justly won the altogether appropriate, if somewhat hackneyed title of a self-made man.

On the 26th of March, 1896, in Portland, Mr. King was united in marriage to Miss Bertha L. Friese, a daughter of German parents who came to Portland in 1878. In his political connection Mr. King is somewhat independent with democratic tendencies. In 1906 he was defeated on the democratic ticket for representative, and in 1908 he was the independent and labor candidate for councilman for the fourth ward. His political aspirations, however, are not very strong, as he finds that his growing business interests claim the greater part of his attention. He is, however, a popular and valued member of many fraternal organizations. In 1892 he joined Mount Hood Lodge, No. i, of the Foresters of America, of which he was three times chief ranger. In 1899 he became a member of Fidelity Lodge, No. 4, A. O. U. W., and in 1900 joined Anchor Lodge, No. 746, of the Knights and Ladies of Security, of which he is a past president and now trustee. In 1903 he became a member of the Oregon Benefit Degree, No. i, of which he was the first past president and is also trustee. In 1902 he joined Mount Hood Lodge, No. 72, of the Brotherhood of Boiler Makers & Iron Ship builders of America, of which he was a past president, but withdrew in 1908. In 1907 he joined Rose City Camp, No. 191, of the Woodmen of the World; in 1908 became a member of Oregon Lodge, No. i. United Artisans ; in 1909, the Evening Star Grange ; and in 1910 joined Portland Lodge, No. 55, F. & A. M. The secret of his success Hes in the fact that he has never been afraid of earnest labor and that his diligence and close application have ever been supplemented by unquestioned integrity and reliability.

Walter Frazar Burrell

Walter F. Burrell has been recognized throughout the years of his manhood as a stalwart and enthusiastic supporter of every movement and project instituted for the benefit and upbuilding of the city of Portland. His business associations have brought him into active connection with its wholesale and manufacturing trade and at the same time he has been a factor in the agricultural progress of the states of Oregon, Washington and Idaho, His judgment is sound, his discrimination keen and penetrating. He seems to see from the circumference to the very center of things and so coordinates forces that unified and harmonious results are achieved and the utmost possible for the attainment of success seems to have been reached. His days have been unmarked by events of special importance, save such as come to those reared on the western frontier, in a district where a spirit of enterprise is rife and where nothing seems to deter successful accomplishment.

His father, Martin S, Burrell, was a man of conspicuous business ability, who came to Portland in the year 1855, and it was in this city that Walter F. Burrell, entered upon life's journey on the 13th of February, 1863. His education was acquired in the schools of Portland and Oberlin and when his school days were over, he entered the business house of Knapp, Burrell & Company, of which his father was the head and applied himself to mastering the details of a business that included the handling of vehicles, agricultural implements and sawmill machinery, and was the largest of its kind in the northwest.

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The trade grew to very extensive proportions, but the f^^^her's interest in the business was sold immediately after his death m 1885, and Walter F. Burrell, who was then but twenty-two years of age, took charge of /lie management and development of the other properties that were features of his father s Sate and included large tracts of untilled land in Whitman county, Washington all of which the son brought under cultivation m the production of snlendid crops. While he has given much attention to raising wheat and other crops of grain, Mr. Burrell has also engaged in the extensive growing of apples pnri Dears not only in Oregon but also in the states of Washington and Idaho. Tn i8q; Mr Burrell was married to Miss Constance Montgomery, a daughter of Tames B " Montgomery, a prominent citizen of Portland, and they are now he parenTs of five chUdrenYAlden Frazar, Louise, Douglas Montgomery Robert Monttomerv and Virginia. Mr. Burrell is a republican in his political belief He S/s^^?he Ariington, Commercial and Multnomah Clubs, and served tmder Syor H S. Rowl on the board of pubhc works of the city of Portland bu has had no ambition for office, preferring to devote his eflforts to furthering the interests of Portland through its commercial bodies, and a so to mealing the extensive business interests, belonging to himself and assocltTs hi the control of which he displays marked ability and energy, regard- Tn^no detail as too unimportant to receive his attention and at the same time Controlling he larger fact^s in his interests with notable assurance and power.

John H. Hayes

While residing in Portland, Joh^H. Hayes is extensively ^^^^^"l^^the sheeo-raising industry in Morrow county, Oregon. He is one of the native sons of the stSf his birth having occurred in Lane county, near Eugene on the ^oth of March 1856 his parents being William J. and Sarah (Kjapehart) Hayes. The father was born in Indiana in October, 1829, his parents having been early JJLr. of that state The grandfather died when his son Wilham was young fnft^e latter'Ifterward wenfto Missouri, where he resided until 1850, when he ^ros ed the'lains with ox teams, to Oregon and established his hom-^ Lane c/^untv takincr up a donation claim on Spencer creek. He was married soon

Tohn H Hayes was a pupil of the public schools of Douglas county, through the Deriod of hfs youth, yet much of his time during his boyhood days was de- keeping good grades which are valuable both for wool and mutton. He is therefore able to make profitable sales and his business reaches a large figure annually.

Mr. Hayes has been married twice. He first wedded Miss Elizabeth Cornelison, who died in 1884, leaving two sons : Joseph M., a resident of Morrow county, who is conducting the sheep industry at that place ; and Erbie, who married Miss Daisy Begal, by whom he has two children, Clara and Lela. He is now engaged in the hardware business at Vale, Oregon. In 1905 Mr. Hayes was again married, his second union being with Mrs. Melvina Withers, nee Hadley. Her first husband was John A. Withers, who was born in Benton county, Oregon, and died March 2"], 1900. His parents were early settlers of this state. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Withers were born two children : Chester, who married Melva Lewis ; and Wayman, who wedded Lottie Harris and has three children, Merrill, Vancil and John.

Mr. Hayes has long been a member of the Christian church and is a generous contributor to its support. His life has been a useful and active one and while he had the advantage of receiving property through inheritance, he has increased his holdings and won further success by his careful and intelligent management of his business affairs. He is regarded as authority upon the subject of sheep-raising in Morrow county and is numbered among those whose extensive interests are a marvel to the east, where operations are carried on on a much less extensive scale.

Seneca Smith

Seneca Smith, born on the banks of the Wabash in Indiana, August 18, 1844, is now engaged in the practice of law in Portland and, moreover, has considerable real-estate interests here. His father, Cornelius Smith, was a native of New York city, whence he removed to Indiana and there he engaged in the operation of a sawmill for some years and was also connected with commercial interests that made the Wabash and Mississippi rivers the highway of transportation. To the northwest he came with the pioneers of 1847 with Oregon as his destination. Leaving Laporte, Indiana, in March, and enduring the hardships and privations of travel, with ox teams he crossed the plains and in December arrived in Portland - then a tiny village - but after three or four weeks died of fever contracted in crossing the mountains. The beautiful Rose City of today was then a small collection of log cabins and one frame store. The widow and eight children, five sons and three daughters, of whom Seneca Smith was next to the youngest, survived the husband and father. Mrs. Smith, who bore the maiden name of Elizabeth Dixon, was a sister of Thomas Dixon, the founder of the town of Dixon, California. She, too, was a native of the Empire state. While making the trip across the plains she kept a journal of the events which marked their progress that has been published by the Oregon Historical Society - a faithful picture of the experiences which the early emigrants underwent. After her husband's death she and her children removed to Mores Valley, in Yamhill county, where she lived until about 1852, when she married J. C. Geer, the grandfather of ex-Governor Geer, and the progenitor of a large family, many of whose representatives have attained prominence in this state. Mrs. Geer passed away in 1856. Of her children Perl Smith is living at Wrangle, Alaska ; Jasper Smith is a resident of Yamhill county, Oregon ; Eleanor is the wife of Rev. P. S. Knight, of Salem, Oregon ; and Marie is the widow of R. J. Marsh, also of Salem.

The other surviving member of the family is Seneca Smith of this review, who entered a little log school at Butteville in the pursuit of the elementary branches of learning. Later he attended the Lafayette school and McMinnville College and completed his literary course in Willamette University. From 1862 until 1871 he was engaged in mining and in running pack trains in the wilds of eastern Oregon, Washington and western Idaho. The trails were ofttimes scarcely discernible and the route was in places a difficult one. Moreover, the unsettled condition of the country made such trips fraught with considerable danger. In the fall of 187 1 Mr. Smith came to Salem and took up the study of law, continuing his reading under the direction of Judge Boise and P. L. Willis until admitted to the bar in 1874. In connection with his law studies he also took up the study of stenography and in the fall of the latter year reported a session of the legislature for the Oregonian.

Mr. Smith then came to Portland, where he opened a law office and also did much shorthand reporting throughout the northwest, being at that time the only shorthand writer in this part of the country. Governor Moody appointed him to the circuit bench, succeeding Judge Stott, who had resigned in 1883, Judge Smith entering upon the duties of the office on the ist of January, 1884. That the two years of his appointive service were satisfactory is indicated by the fact that in June, 1886, he was elected judge of the circuit court but in July of that year, he left the bench, to resume the private practice of law, in which he has since been continuously engaged, making a specialty of real-estate law. During the first few years of his practice he was in partnership with Judge J. A. Stratton and S. W. Rice, the association being discontinued at the time Mr. Rice was elected county judge. He was next associated with John B. Waldo until Mr. Waldo was elected to the Oregon supreme bench in 1880. Soon afterward Mr. Smith formed a partnership with P. L. Willis, now of Portland, and this connection was maintained until Mr. Smith was appointed judge of the circuit court. After leaving the bench he formed a partnership with Raleigh and Samuel Stott and W. L. Boise, which was dissolved in the fall of 1889. Judge Smith then spent two years in travel and following his return has practiced alone. He is also interested to a considerable extent in real property in and near Portland.

On the 1st day of May, 1879, was celebrated the marriage of Judge Smith and Miss Margaret Gilliland, of Douglas county, Oregon, who died ten years later. On the ist of June, 1891, he wedded Susan E. Southworth, of Woodstock, Illinois. To him rightfully belongs the honored term of an Oregon pioneer. Although in early childhood at the time of his arrival in this state, as he advanced in years and strength he became an active factor in the improvements which have resulted in the development and progress of the state, and has also kept in touch with the later day advancement, whereby Oregon proudly holds its place among the leading commonwealths of the nation.

John Gates

Although more than twenty years have elapsed since the death of John Gates, his memory is kept green in the minds of many of his old friends in Portland and western Oregon, while among steamboat men his name is known and honored, for his work and inventive genius were of such a practical character that he gave to navigation that which has been of material assistance and value thereto. Mr. Gates was born December 31, 1827, in Mercer, Somerset county, Maine, a son of Levi and Hannah (Pane) Gates. The family is of English descent and has numbered among its members many prominent men in America, including General Horatio Gates, one of the distinguished commanders in the Revolutionary war, who received the surrender of Burgoyne at Saratoga. Levi Gates was a thrifty farmer and both he and his wife were devout members of the Congregational church, who worked hard six days in the week and zealously attended to religious duties on Sunday, so that virtually there was no day of rest in the family. Thus amid religious environment John Gates was reared, his education being acquired in the pubHc schools of Mercer and later of Worcester, Massachusetts, where his parents took up their abode when he was quite young. One of the valuable lessons inculcated in his mind in his youth was that all labor is honorable and that farm work is an excellent means of developing muscle and health in a growing lad. His first service aside from the farm was in the shops of Coe Brothers at Worcester and after the young machinist had acquired the mechanical art he was placed in charge of the shops. Being naturally quick of apprehension and deft in the use of his hands he had gained unusual proficiency and before he was twenty years of age was much in advance of ordinary mechanics of the same age.

The California gold excitement of 1849 brought to the west thousands of hardy young men from New England and with them came John Gates. After an experience which convinced him that his destiny was not connected with the mining camp he turned his steps to the north and about 1850 first became acquainted with Portland. Here his first work was as an engineer in a sawmill located at the foot of Jefferson street and he also put in operation the first planing machine and the first sash and door machinery in Oregon. He owned an equal interest with the other partners in the Portland Milling Company, when the first large fire in Portland occurred in the fall of 1854, at which time he saw the accumulation of years of hard work go up in smoke. There remained to him only his family, his good health and a disposition to do the best he could under adverse circumstances. He turned his attention to the steamboat business, succeeding Jacob Kamm as chief engineer of the English Steam Navigation Company. In the meantime, however, he had been employed as engineer on the steamer Fashion and was for a considerable period foreman machinist for Davis & Monastes. He aided in building a mill on the site of the old plant of the Portland Milling Company and was more or less identified with the lumber interests of the city until the winter of i860, when he began work for the Oregon Steam Navigation Company, continuing with them and their successors for nearly a quarter of a century. During that period he revolutionized the style of Oregon river steamboats, his inventive genius and practical knowledge resulting in changes which have constituted the standard for steamboat building in this locality since that time. He made all of the models, designs and plans for cabins and machinery on the boats of the Oregon Steam Navigation Company, and, when departing from old time customs, he built the Emma Hayward it provoked unfavorable criticism from river men and steamboat builders. The company which he represented, however, endorsed his ideas and time has proven their worth. His remarkable inventive genius displayed itself in many forms. During the first ten years of his connection with the Oregon Steam Navigation Company he took out twenty-seven patents on inventions which have proven valuable in steamboat operation. These include the Gates hydraulic steering gear, without which it would be almost an impossibility to handle the big river and sound steamers of the present day with any degree of proficiency. He has probably made more original designs for boats and machinery than any man living. He is the inventor of the well known sight feed lubricator where the oil can be seen in a glass tube as it is fed drop by drop to the cylinder of the steam engine. His inventions also include the spark arrester for steamboats now universally used on all wood burners ; piston packings ; a steering apparatus ; sectional boiler ; ash pan ; cut oflF valve ; a thumb screw for holding wheel ropes; and several patents for steam pumps, all of which attest the wide range of his abilities. Under his direction were builded the Orient, Occident, Almota, Wide West, Daisy Ainsworth, R. R. Thompson, S. G, Reed, Hassalo, D, S. Baker, Annie Faxon, Oneonta, Harvest Queen, Mountain Queen, Emma Hayward, Henry Villard, John Gates, Spokane, Donita, Welcome and Dixie Thompson. He was for many years inspector of boilers and it was through his recommendation that the Oregon Railway & Navigation Company inaugurated channel slucing with the steamship on the bars of the Columbia river. Had it not been for the channels so formed vessels drawing over fourteen feet of water could not come to Portland and the San Francisco steamers would have been obliged to stop below St. Helen's bar during the low water stage.

Following his resignation as chief engineer of the navigation company Mr. Gates was elected by the republican convention as its candidate for mayor of Portland and was elected by a handsome majority in 1885. This office he acceptably filled until his death on the 27th of April, 1888, his remains being interred in Riverview cemetery. It was uniformly acknowledged that death had claimed one of the ablest and most public-spirited citizens of Portland.

Mr. Gates was married twice. At nineteen years of age he wedded Mary Blodgett, seventeen years of age and they had three children. His second wife, Rachel Scales, he wedded at The Dalles, Oregon, September 4, 1867, and they had four children. Mr. Gates held membership for many years in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and was a consistent adherent of the principles of the republican party. His career presents a good illustration of the typical American boy who starts out in life depending entirely upon his own ability and industry and who attains a position of independence and honor through the application of the plain virtues of self denial and worthy effort.

William R. Stokes

William R. Stokes, who as a contracting architect, has specialized in the building of residences and apartment houses, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, September 30, 1854, a son of Edward and Mary (Hon) Stokes, the former a native of New Jersey, while the latter was born in Germany. The father was a brick mason and in early life removed from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Cincinnati, becoming one of the pioneer builders of that city.

William R. Stokes, who is one of a family of six children, acquired his education in the schools of Cincinnati, and remained at home with his parents until twenty-five years of age, when he was married and established a home of his own. He had previously learned his trade with John Ashar, one of the old time builders of Cincinnati and from the time of his marriage until his removal to Portland he continued in the employ of Mr. Ashar. In 1882, however, he decided to come to the Pacific coast and as the railroad had not been built to Portland at that time he made his way to San Francisco and from that city came by boat to his destination. He has been with Richard L. Zeller in the contract business since his arrival in this city. One of the first buildings with which he was connected was the old Williams avenue schoolhouse recently torn down to make way for the erection of a business block. He also erected the Ladd residence and barn in Laurelhurst, about a quarter of a century ago. He has made a specialty of the erection of residences and apartment houses and some of the most attractive homes of Portland - a city noted for its beautiful residences - have been erected by him. He has also done work in various parts of the state including the building of a large number of schoolhouses in Oregon and numerous contracts have been executed at Baker City, Pendleton, Heppner, Oregon City, Astoria, Hood River and North Yamhill. The firm likewise had the contract for the erection of the Soldiers' Home at Roseburg, and from the beginning of his residence here Mr. Stokes has figured prominently and actively as a contractor, his labors being attended with a substantial measure of success. He has made judicious investment in property and is the owner of a farm of one hundred and seventy-three acres in Clackamas county, to which he is now devoting much of his time, being extensively engaged in horticultural pursuits there, having set out forty acres to fruit. His farm is beautifully located near Estacada, and in addition he maintains his home in Portland.

On the 15th of April, 1879, Mr. Stokes was united in marriage to Miss Mary Mathena, a daughter of Francis Marion and Mary (Herod) Mathena, whose family numbered seven children. Mrs. Stokes was born in Covington, Kentucky, and by her marriage has become the mother of the following named : William Roy, thirty years of age, who resides upon his father's farm in Clackamas county; Francis Marion, of Portland, twenty-eight years of age; Irena A., Harry C. and Claud Lee, aged respectively twenty-five, twenty and eleven years. The eldest son is married and has three children, Donald, Jeannette and William Roy, aged six, three and one years.

Mr. Stokes belongs to the Grange and both he and his wife are consistent members of the Methodist church. He is a republican in politics but votes independently on local questions. He finds pleasure and recreation in fishing, shooting and in mountain camp life. Time has proven the wisdom of his judgment in choosing Portland as a place of residence. The rapid growth of the northwest affords excellent opportunity to the contractor and builder and his business interests have made constant demand upon his time, while his intelligent direction of his labor and those who serve him has brought him substantial and well merited success.

Hon. John W. Meldrum

Among the honored citizens of Clackamas county, Hon. John W. Meldrum occupies a place which it would be difficult for any other to fill. He is now past the patriarchal age of three-score and ten years, and has been a resident of Oregon since 1845. He was born near Burlington, Iowa, December 17. 1839, and is a son of John and Susanna Depew (Cox) Meldrum. His grandfather, William Meldrum, was of Scotch-Irish descent and settled in Kentucky in 1804, when the state was largely a wilderness. Later he removed to a farm near Carrollton, Illinois, where he passed the remainder of his life. John Meldrum, the father of our subject, was born in Shelby county, Kentucky, in March, 1808, and learned the trade of a stone mason and builder. In the year 1845, ^^ joined a number of friends and assisted in organizing a train which started from Council Bluffs, Iowa, early in the spring and came over the trail to Oregon City, reaching their destination in October following.

John W. Meldrum very early became inured to the hardships of pioneer experience. He had little opportunity for education in the primitive log schoolhouse but as he grew older became a reader of good books, and by association with others and close observation has surpassed in general information many who started under much more favorable circumstances. His first work was in assisting in clearing land upon a claim which his father had taken up near Ilwaco, Washington. About 1856 he returned to Oregon City, and later taught school and for two years read law, also working in the mines of Idaho and eastern Oregon for several years. About the time of the close of the Civil war he turned his attention to surveying and for twenty years, with the exception of one year, was in the employ of the United States government as deputy surveyor, operating in Oregon and Idaho. This gave him a remarkable opportunity for becoming acquainted with the country, and few men have a more comprehensive knowledge of the conditions pertaining to that part of the northwest during its formative stage than Mr. Meldrum. In 1888 he was elected county surveyor of Clackamas county, and in 1890 became county judge of the county and served as chairman of the board of county commissioners. His knowledge of engineering assisted him in an important degree in improving the condition of the country roads, and as soon as possible he brought about the change from the labor system of road taxation to a money tax system which he found much more practicable and under which the roads were very greatly improved. In order to do this, it was necessary to have the Oregon City charter changed, as it provided for the use of all the money collected by taxes in the city for road improvement to be spent inside the city limits. For the hrst two years he was opposed by the other members of the board and the people from the southern part of the county, but finally, with the assistance of Richard Scott, another commissioner, he succeeded after a long struggle. Later several other counties, including Yamhill and Polk, followed in the same line, copying after the change made in Clackamas county. In 1898 Mr. Meldrum served as special agent for ten months for the general land office, examining surveys in Nevada and Wyoming. He was elected county surveyor of Clackamas county and filled that office in a most acceptable manner. In January, 1871, he bought the north half of the Peter M. Rinearson donation land claim on the east bank of the Willamette river. Here he has laid out the townsite of Meldrum on the Oregon City car line, ten miles from Portland, but has kept as a home fifty acres on the river.

On September 25, 1872, Mr. Meldrum was united in marriage at Oregon City to Miss Georgiana Pope, a niece of Governor Abernethy. Three children were born of this union: Charles E., Eva S. and David T. Mr. Meldrum has been a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows since 1869, and has filled all the chairs, and is also prominently identified with the encampment, filling all the chairs of this branch. He has also filled the offices in the Ancient Order of United Workmen. He is a member of the Pioneer Society, the Oregon Historical Society, and holds membership in the Methodist Episcopal church, serving on its board of trustees for many years. He is an advocate of the principles of the republican party, and served as delegate-at-large from Oregon to the national convention at St. Louis, which nominated William McKinley for president. He stood for sound money as did all of the delegation from Oregon. In reviewing the career of a veteran such as is presented in the life of Mr. Meldrum, we are reminded that many of the most important events of modern times have transpired since he came to Oregon. Among these may be named the introduction of the railroad, the telegraph and the telephone ; the opening of the ports of Japan to commerce by the United States fleet under Commander Perry ; the discovery of gold in California, Australia, Colorado and Alaska; the Civil war, which sounded the note of freedom and unity around the world ; the Spanish-American war that opened new territory to our country and involved additional and solemn responsibilities ; the many scientific discoveries that have revolutionized modern thought; and also the vast expansion of population in the western half of the United States, attracting tens of thousands from the older settled regions of the east and of Europe. All of these and many other changes pass in review before the mind of the pioneer as he rests at his comfortable fireside. Mr. Meldrum has well earned the repose which he now enjoys. He has merited the respect of his associates by many kindly acts in years past, and as a representative pioneer in the highest meaning of the word he is worthy a place in this volume.

Frederick Vigne Andrews

Frederick Vigne Andrews, deceased, was recognized as one of the progressive men of his period in Portland. He was born July 8, 1846, in London, England, and his life record covered the intervening years to the ist of November, 1904. His parents were Thomas Robert and Annie O. (Grane) Andrews, the former connected with the old East India service.

In the schools of London, Frederick V. Andrews pursued his education and afterward engaged in business there as an indigo broker and later as a stock broker. He had had considerable business experience, therefore, when he came to America in 1879, The reports which he had heard concerning the Pacific coast led him to establish his home in this section of the country. He settled first at Corvallis, Oregon, but after a few months went to Albany, this state, where he remained for six months. On the expiration of that period he came to Portland. After a brief period, however, he returned to England on business which kept him in his native land for a few months, when he again came to Portland and engaged in railroad construction work, this being in the early '80s. He was afterward connected with railway interests at Pond 'Oreille and in 1884 turned his attention to the insurance business, entering the office of Ferry & White. A year's connection therewith brought him knowledge of the business and in 1885 he opened an insurance office of his own, becoming senior member of the firm of F. V. Andrews & Company, under which style the business is still carried on. He was recognized as one of the most progressive men of his period in this city.

About 1867 Mr. Andrews was married in London to Miss Mary Brown, a daughter of Dr. Gossett Brown, a well known London physician. Mrs. Andrews is now living in London. They were the parents of two children : Alice M., the wife of Rev. E. L. Holmes, rector at Milton Ernest, England; and F. H. V. Andrews, who is the present head of the business established and developed by his father. The death of Mr. Andrews occurred November i, 1904, and the community mourned the loss of one whose worth was widely recognized as a business man, as a citizen and in the private relations of life.

Frank E. Dooly

Frank E. Dooly is vice president of the firm of Dooly & Company, conducting a general insurance agency in Portland. The success of the enterprise is directly due to the well devised and carefully executed plans of him who is one of its chief executive officers, and whose business association also touches many other important interests, including several of the leading corporations of this city. In a considerable measure Portland owes her prosperity and upbuilding to men of western birth who, imbued with the spirit of enterprise which has always been characteristic of this section of the country, achieve results by reason of their unfaltering perseverance and determination.

He was born in Ogden, Utah, September 15, 1879, and later, when the family removed to San Diego, California, was placed by his parents, R. M. and Mary E. Dooly, in St. Joseph's Academy in that city, where a part of his education was acquired. He came to Portland in 1894, and was also for a time a student in the Portland high school. When twenty-one years of age, he organized the firm of Dooly & Company for the conduct of a general fire insurance business, andin the twelve years which have since intervened, he and his associates have developed the largest insurance agency in this city. In the latter part of the year 1909, the father, after disposing of his interests at Forest Grove, where he was president of the First National Bank, removed to Portland and became actively interested in the firm of Dooly & Company, as its president. R. M. Dooly, Jr.,v a brother of our subject, is also a member of the firm. They have attractive ' offices in the Board of Trade building, where as general agents for the state they represent the National Union Fire Insurance Company of Pittsburg, Penn- ; sylvania; the People's National Fire Insurance Company of Philadelphia; the General Accident Insurance Company of Scotland; the Western Fire Insurance Company of Pittsburg; and Oregon Surety & Casualty Company of Portland. They are young men who have thoroughly informed themselves on every phase of the branches of insurance which they handle, and in enlarging the scope of their activities, their intelligently directed efforts have produced substantial results. It was Frank E. Dooly who acquired the first fire insurance general agency

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Frank E. Dooly has, moreover, become widely known through other business connections. He is vice president and one of the directors of the Hibernia Savings Bank, of Portland; is treasurer of the Oregon Fruit Packing Company, of Portland and Salem; and is interested in several realty companies that are opening and developing new residence tracts. He is individually the owner of several valuable business blocks, and his investments have been most judiciously placed, bringing him a gratifying financial return.

Mr. Dooly has enjoyed pleasant home surroundings since his marriage in February, 1901, to Miss Ida Florence Skinner, a daughter of the late Peter N. Skinner, of Newberg. He is a member of the cathedral parish, holds charter enrollment with the Knights of Columbus, and is a member of the Arlington Club. It is a noticeable fact that it is young men who are the builders and promoters of the northwest and the managers of the leading business enterprises of this section of the country, and among such Frank E. Dooly deserves prominent and honorable mention.

George W. Hoyt

George W. Hoyt is numbered among the representatives of financial interests in Portland, for he is now cashier of the Merchants National Bank. He has won his present enviable position through merit, having been promoted through intermediate positions since entering the bank in October, 1892, as bookkeeper. Portland is his native city, and the date of his birth is October 15, 1866. His father. Captain George W. Hoyt, is mentioned elsewhere in this volume. He was educated in the public schools and was graduated from the Portland high school. He then devoted six years to the wholesale drug business, acting as city salesman for the firm of Snell, Heitshu & Woodard. This brought him a wide acquaintance, and from his early connection with business interests, he has been numbered among the popular young business men of Portland. In October, 1892, he secured the position of bookkeeper in the Merchants National Bank, and has gradually been advanced from one position to another of larger responsibility until in January, 1910, he was elected cashier. He is also one of the bank directors.

In November, 1893, in Portland, Mr. Hoyt was married to Miss Pearl M. Shaver, a daughter of George W. Shaver, of this city, and they have two children: Martha Shaver, thirteen years of age; and George W., Jr., a little lad of four years. The parents are communicants of the Episcopal church, and Mr. Hoyt belongs also to Willamette Lodge No. 2, A. F. & A. M., and to the Elks lodge. He is also a life member of the Multnomah Club and a member of the Commercial and Arlington Clubs. His political allegiance is given to the republican party, and while he indorses its principles as elements which in his opinion are most conducive to good government, he has no ambition for office holding, preferring that his efforts shall be put forth in the broad field of business, wherein he is making a creditable name for himself.

Delmer Shaver

Delmer Shaver, president of the Shaver Transportation Company, is one of Portland's native sons, his birth having occurred on the 31st of December, 1866, at the old family home between Crosby and Larrabee, Cherry and Broadway. His father, George W. Shaver, crossed the plains in 1857, settling first at Waldo Hills, after which he came to Portland about i860. For many years he was here engaged in the wood business, supplying the steamers in early years with their fuel and afterward conducting a wood yard. He also had a large orchard on the banks of the river near his home, and was among the early horticulturists of the region. In later life he turned his attention to steamboating, with which business he was connected up to his death, which occurred in October, 19CX), at the age of sixty-seven years. In the early days he held some city offices and was a prominent and influential resident of the community. He married Sarah Dixon, who made the long trip across the plains to Oregon in 1852, at which time her father, James Dixon, located with his family at Roseburg. Mrs. Shaver also died at the old home, passing away in 1909 at the age of seventythree years. They were married in Portland, February 12, 1854, and had ten children, of whom four sons and three daughters are living.

At the usual age, Delmer Shaver entered the public schools of Portland, and afterward continued his education in the Columbia Commercial College, from which he was graduated with the class of 1886. His school days over, he devoted one year to the wood business and then became connected with steamboat interests in association with his brothers J. W. and George M. Shaver. He has since continued in this line of business, and has been president of the Shaver Transportation Company since the death of his father in 1900. For many years they operated steamboats in the passenger service, but are now exclusively in the towing business. They own and operate seven boats, and are one of the leading concerns of the kind in Portland, the extensive shipping interests at this point giving them excellent opportunity to conduct a business of this character. Delmer Shaver is also interested in the Clatskine Transportation Company, conducting a passenger steamship business.

On the 15th of August, 1889, Mr. Shaver was united in marriage in Portland to Miss Nellie A. McDuffee, a daughter of John McDuffee, of Iowa, and unto this union has been born one son, James Delmer, born December 2."], 1903. The family residence is at No. 360 Vancouver avenue.

Mr. Shaver is a member of the Woodmen of the World, belonging to Camp No. 65. He also holds membership in the Hassalo Street Congregational church, which he joined in 1908. He is now president of its executive board. In his business affairs he has made steady progress, his capable management and indefatigable industry constituting the basis upon which he has builded his prosperity. He seems to know just when and where to put forth efifort to the best advantage, and as the years go by he is steadily forging ahead, his labors being attended with excellent results.

C. Minsinger, founder and president of the Star Sand Company of Portland, in which connection he has developed an enterprise of importance to the community as well as a source of substantial profit to himself, was born in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, October 16, 1855, and is a son of Gotlieb and Caroline (Eichleay) Minsinger. The father, a native of Germany, was brought to this country when only four years of age and after rearing a family of seven sons and three daughters, all of whom are living in Pittsburg with the exception of the subject of this review, he passed away at the ripe old age of eighty-four years. He was one of the oldest and most successful teamsters of Pittsburg. For many years he engaged in dealing in sand and gravel there and made that undertaking one of the most important and profitable industries of the city. His widow still resides in Pittsburg at the advanced age of eighty-three years.

C. Minsinger of this review acquired his education in the schools of Pittsburg and was also graduated with honor from Dufif's College, one of the oldest of the city. For several years, or until about 1876, he worked for his father and gained a knowledge of the line of business in which he is now engaged. In 1876, however, he went to Japan with a cargo of Kentucky horses for the [apanese government. His trip to the Orient was most interesting, giving him clear insight into the httle people of that kingdom. Following his return to Americd he organized the Star Sand Company of Pittsburg and afterward in connection with others organized the Iron City Sand Company, in the incorporation of which was merged the Star Sand Company and the Monongahela Company. The Iron City Sand Company is still in existence in Pittsburg and Mr. Minsinger remains as one of its stockholders. It is a very prosperous business, having been established upon a safe foundation, while modern business methods were employed in the management.

The opportunities of the west attracted Mr. Minsinger in July, 1889. At this date he arrived in Portland and organized the Star Sand Company of this city, of which he is the president. For twenty-one years he has been at the head of the business which has developed along substantial lines and is one of the most important industries of this character in the northweset. He is also well known as an importer of horses and has brought to this country a number of Belgium horses that have been prize winners at the Portland fairs and other fairs in this section of the country. He is the owner of an excellent stock farm on Sandy road, thirty miles east of Portland.

In 1891 Mr. Minsinger was united in marriage to Miss Caroline Bunton, of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, a daughter of William and Caroline Bunton. Her father was a noted boat builder of Pittsburg, whose fame in that connection has gone abroad throughout the entire country. Mr. and Mrs. Minsinger have two daughters, Edna Irene and Helen B.

The parents are members of the First Presbyterian church and Mr. Minsinger is a prominent Mason, having attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite. He is also a popular member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and of the Elks lodge and holds membership in the Multnomah Club. Social qualities render him popular, while business abihty has gained him prominence. His powers of organization and his executive force have enabled him to develop a business of extensive proportions and his record is hot only written in terms of success but also in terms of enterprise, energy and perseverance. At a source of recreation he enjoys driving and shooting.

Benjamin W. Powell

Among the veterans of the Civil war who did valiant service for the Union and later settled on the Pacific coast, is Benjamin W. Powell of Portland. He is a son of George W. and Margaret (Miller) Powell, and was born in De Kalb county, Indiana, March 9, 1844. He comes of good American ancestry. His grandfather, Benjamin Powell, served in the war of 1812, and was wounded at the battle of Sackett's Harbor. The father was a farmer and served as first justice of the peace of Fairfield township, De Kalb county. His brother, John G. Powell, was a member of the One Hundredth Indiana Volunteers, and died in service at Vicksburg. Mississippi.

Benjamin W. Powell was reared on a farm and educated in the common schools. Shortly after he had passed his seventeenth year, the early battles of the Civil war created intense excitement all over the country and, like thousands of patriotic young men in the north, he responded to President Lincoln's call to arms, and at Toledo, Ohio, on the 22d of August, 1861, he enlisted to serve three years, or during the war. He was mustered into the United States service at Toledo as a private of Captain Jacob W. Brown's Company C, Fourteenth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Colonel James B. Steadman companding. In the winter of 1861-62 he was sent to a hospital at Lexington, Kentucky, and when able to be forwarded, he rejoined his regiment at Mill Springs,

Kentucky, and from there was sent to a hospital at Louisville, was granted a furlough and returned home, receiving an honorable discharge on the ist of April, 1862, by reason of disability. He reenlisted at Indianapolis, Indiana, on the 19th of August, 1862, for another term of three years, or during the war, and was mustered in as a private of Captain Carl C. Kingsbury's Company C, Seventy-fourth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, which was commanded by Colonel Charles W. Chapman. The regiment proceeded to Indianapolis, where eight companies were mustered into the service August 21, 1862, and at once moved to Louisville, Kentucky. From this point the regiment went to Bowling Green, Kentucky, where it remained until September 5, and then returned to Louisville.. On the ist of October it marched with the Second Brigade, First Division, Army of the Ohio, in pursuit of General Bragg, and his command participated in that campaign and in the battle of Perryville or Chaplin Hills, Kentucky. Companies C and K joined the regiment at Castillian Springs, Tennessee, December 4, 1862, thus making the organization complete. December 7 it aided in driving Morgan's force across the Cumberland river at Hartsville and on the 25th marched northward, overtaking the enemy December 30 and driving them across the Rolling Fork of Salt river. The regiment was now assigned to the Second Brigade, Third Division, Fourteenth Corps, Army of the Cumberland, and participated in the following engagements : Stone River, or Murfreesboro, and Hoover's Gap, Tennessee; Dug Gap, Chickamauga, Georgia ; Chattanooga, Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge, Tennessee ; Buzzard Roost, or Tunnel Hill, Resaca, Rome, Dallas, or New Hope Church, Kenesaw Mountain, Lost Mountain, Chattahoochee River, Peach Tree Creek, the siege of Atlanta, Jonesboro, Love joy Station, the march to the sea and Savannah, Georgia; Averasboro and Bentonville, North Carolina; and a number of minor engagements. April 30, 1865, the regiment started for Washington, D. C, encamping near Richmond, Virginia, and arriving at the national capital May 19, where it participated in the grand review on the 24th and remained there until June 9, when it was mustered out of service. Private Powell was slightly wounded several times, but did not leave his regiment. With two companies of the Seventy-fourth Indiana he was captured at Mumfordville, Kentucky, September 17, 1862, the detachment having been surrounded by the enemy. He was paroled on the field, given thirty days' furlough and went home. At the expiration of the furlough he reported to the provost marshal and was sent to the Soldiers Home at Indianapolis, thence to the hospital and when convalescent was granted a furlough and returned home. He rejoined his regiment, having in the meantime been exchanged. These two companies, C and K, were left at Indianapolis to fill up their ranks and complete their organization, starting on the 27th of August for Bowling Green, Kentucky, to join the regiment, but were stopped at Mumfordville on the 30th to assist in the defense of that place. On the 14th of September the companies took part in an engagement at that place until compelled to surrender after a gallant defense against greatly superior numbers on the 17th of September, 1862. The companies were | exchanged November 17th and rejoined the regiment December 4th. In addition to engagements at Mumfordville, Kentucky, Private Powell bore a gallant part in all other engagements of his regiment, beginning with Missionary Ridge, Tennessee, and he rendered faithful and meritorious service throughout the time of his enlistment. He received an honorable discharge at Washington, D. C, on the 9th day of March, 1865, by reason of the close of the war.

After the expiration of his military service, Mr. Powell engaged in his dutiesl as a private citizen and later studied law, being admitted to the bar in Nebraska] in 1881. Soon afterward he became, by appointment, judge of the county court! of Colfax county, Nebraska. For seven years from 1884 he lived at Medford,! Oregon, and was city recorder there, holding that position until he resigned inf 1889. He was the first city attorney of Castle Rock, Washington, and for five] years served as a member of its city council and also for six years filled the]

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In 1871 Mr. Powell was united in marriage to Miss Alice G. Wade, at Butler county, Nebraska, and unto them one daughter was bom, Estella, now living at Govan, Washington. On the 5th of December, 1900, at Baltimore, Maryland, Mr. Powell was married to Miss Carrie Koehler. Two sons bless this union, Benjamin Russell and Binger W., the elder being born March 20, 1902, and the younger May 9, 1905.

Mr. Powell is a man of strong individuality, and although he did not begin the practice of law until middle life, he threw so much energy into his work that he has attained success as an attorney and even surpassed many who started earlier in the race, with advantages of college and technical training. Energy, perseverance and determination have accomplished for him what they will accomplish for any ambitious man, if properly directed. Mr. Powell is a member of General Compson Post No. 22, Department of Oregon, Grand Army of the Republic, and also of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and has many friends in the northwest who admire him for his manly qualities.

George W. Wilcox

Farming and merchandising have claimed the attention of George W. Wilcox, but at the present time he is living retired in Portland. The initial page of his life record was written December 26, 1831, on which day he was born in Putnam county, Ohio, his parents being Joel and Sarah Wilcox. The father was a farmer who settled in Putnam county, Ohio, during the pioneer epoch in its history. Again he became identified with pioneer life on his removal to the Pacific coast in 1847. The difficulties of travel at that time cannot be realized at the present day, nor the unsettled condition of the country. Both the father and mother died of fever at Vancouver, Washington, soon after their arrival.

George W. Wilcox was a pupil in the district schools of his native county in his youthful days and afterward assisted his father in the farm work until 1847, when the family started westward, leaving their Ohio home in March. Ox teams drew the heavy wagons over the prairies of the Mississippi valley, the long stretches of hot sand that constitute the desert and over the mountains of the Cascade range. Only a few families left Ohio at that time, but many others joined the train in Missouri and about nine months were consumed in making the trip. The first winter was spent in the vicinity of Vancouver, and in the spring a removal was made to a point near Salem, Oregon. Both parents died of mountain fever, and George W. Wilcox became ill of the same disease and did not regain his health for about a year. He worked for his brother-inlaw, who came to the northwest in the same train, remaining in his employ until 1852, when he was old enough to get land of his own. He then bought out his brother-in-law and became the owner of six hundred and forty acres, but found that the place was not healthful, and he vacated it after living thereon for about a year. At that time he took up his abode near Forest Grove, and later he made his way to the coast, where he continued for about eighteen months. His health had become much impaired, but he was greatly improved by his sojourn by the ocean.

Mr. Wilcox then returned to Washington county, Oregon, and on the ist of February, 1856, was married. Subsequently he purchased a tract of land near Forest Grove, which he owned and occupied for eight years, when he sold out and settled upon a farm only two miles from the city, renting that place. After about two years, he removed to Polk county, Oregon, where he purchased land and bought a sawmill, which he operated for three years. On disposing of that property he returned to the vicinity of Forest Grove, where he again cultivated rented land and later purchased a place, making his home thereon for fifteen years, during which period he followed farming. He then sold out and removed to Portland, opening a grocery store on Union avenue, which he carried on for a year, when ill health caused him to dispose of his stock. He has since lived retired, but is yet the owner of one hundred and sixty acres of land in Morrow county, Oregon, which he secured as a homestead. Throughout his life he has made good use of his time and opportunities, diligently carrying on business unless prevented by the condition of his health. As the years have gone by, he has won a substantial measure of prosperity, enabling him to provide his family with the comforts of life.

Mr. Wilcox wedded Miss Mary E. Dickson, a daughter of Joshua and Mary E. (Lewis) Dickson, who were pioneers of Oregon of 1845. Her father was born in Tennessee and her mother in Kentucky, and in the latter state they were married. They came over the plains in 1845 ^^id settled near Forest Grove, where both died. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Wilcox were born nine children : John E., now deceased, married Miss Ellen Newvill, and they had two children : Belle, who is the wife of Elmer Shields and has five children - Irma, Ivan, Hugh, Wanda and Carl ; and Mattie, who married George Shields and has a daughter, Helen. Alice, who has also passed away, was the wife of Frank Baker and had three children - Lulu, Rosie and Mellie, the first named being now Mrs. Williamson and has five children. William J., the third of the family, is deceased. Jacob is a farmer of Wheeler county, Oregon. Tracy, also living in Wheeler county, married Eva Lang. Isaiah C., who wedded Nora Dickey, is deceased. Sarah E. is the wife of M. R. Van Horn of Portland, and they have five children : Charles, Leroy, Laura, Ernest and Lloyd. Minnie has departed this life. FeHx M., the youngest of the family, is living at Walla Walla, Washington. He married Laura Everest and has one child, Veda.

Mr. Wilcox has long been a stalwart republican, but aside from some minor offices, has never served in political positions. He is a member of the Methodist church, and its teachings have been the guiding principle of his life. He has always endeavored to live peaceably with his fellowmen, to deal honorably in business and to faithfully perform the duties of citizenship and regard home ties. At the age of seventy-nine years, he receives the veneration and respect which should ever be accorded to a long and well spent life.

Thomas J. Monahan

Thomas J. Monahan, postmaster of St. Johns and for many years connected with the Portland Light & Power Company, is a native of Schuylkill county, Pennsylvania, born January 27, 1854, and when a boy of eleven years, removed with his parents, Patrick and Rose (Macken) Monahan, to Nodaway county, Missouri, where the family settled upon a farm. He received his education in the public schools of Pennsylvania, and had little opportunity later to add to his school knowledge. The little farm of forty acres, which was located forty miles from St. Joseph, Missouri, did not pay very well in that early day and as the means of the family were limited, the son sought employment from neighboring farmers. He was hired by John Mofiit, of Nine Hickories, Missouri, and his first wage was ten dollars a month and board, continuing through two seasons. A goodly share of this money went toward the support of the family. He next entered the employ of John Maharry of West Point, Worth county, Missouri, where he also received ten dollars a month and continued for two seasons. By means of odd jobs at dififerent times he acquired a little capital. One of these excursions into the realm of money making consisted of delivering a drove of hogs at a point forty miles distant, the trip requiring seventeen days. The boy was then only fifteen years of age. He next went to work for the

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Chicago & Southwestern Railroad in the construction of its Hne and received twenty-five dollars per month. Being fairly started on a successful business career, after awhile he returned to his Missouri home and entered the employ of C. D. Lyman, where he learned blacksmithing, horseshoeing and wagonmaking, becoming quite an expert in these various departments. In 1872 he purchased an interest in the shop, and in the same year married the daughter of the proprietor.

In 1875 Mr. Monahan had the opportunity of visiting portions of the west which he had not seen, as traveling salesman for C. D. Blodgett, who manufactured tire shrinkers. He returned once more to the home farm, but in 1881, becoming convinced that he could improve his finances by setting his face westward, he came direct to Portland, and since that time has been identified with the northwest. In 1882 he went to St. Johns and for over twenty-one years was connected with the Willamette Bridge & Railroad Company, and different mergers which has since been merged into the Portland Light & Power Company. He began as rodman on the engineering corps and later he was conductor on the first car that entered St. Johns. This car was operated by a steam motor. He continued as conductor on the line until 1896, but has ever since been connected with the Portland Light & Power Company and has been postmaster of St. Johns since the 21st of July, 1910.

In 1872 Mr. Monahan was united in marriage to Miss Julia Lyman, of Gentry county, Missouri. They have had seven children, of whom three are living: W. H. ; E. F., and Viola Belle, the wife of C. H. Thayer. Mr. Monahan has been actively interested in affairs of the city and was a member of the first city council of St. Johns in 1902 and 1904. He is a member of the Modern Woodmen of America, of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and is a trustee of the United Evangelical church. In political affiliations he is identified with the republican party. While he has seen many ups and downs in life, he has never lost faith in ultimate victory, and he has the confidence and respect of many friends and acquaintances, and has fairly earned the honors which have come to him in recent years.

John M. Pittenger

John M. Pittenger, who was attracted to Oregon from the east more than thirty years ago, and for some years past has been actively identified with the real-estate interests of Portland, first saw the light of day at Spencer, Medina county, Ohio, August 18, 1855. He is a son of John S. and Mary (Garver) Pittenger. He grew up amid favorable surroundings and received a good common-school education, after which he became a student at Oberlin College, Ohio, but did not graduate. At the age of eighteen years, desiring to be self-supporting, he began as a school teacher and for several years taught in Ohio and Michigan. By reading and inquiry, Mr. Pittenger reached the conclusion that Oregon presented an inviting field and at twenty-three years of age, in 1878, he came to this state and entered upon the study of law. From 1880 to 1882 he acted as deputy district attorney under Judge J. F. Caples. Later he pursued his studies in the Oregon Law School, from which he was graduated in 1886, with the degree of LL. B., and is today the only living representative of the first law class of the State University of Oregon. After practicing for a short time, he became interested in financial matters, and was one of the organizers of the Bank of Albina, being connected with this institution until 1893. Previous to this time he had acted as justice of the peace of lower Albina. He was a member of the commission that built the Burnside bridge and has been prominently connected with many other improvements in this vicinity. The real-estate and insurance business has claimed a large share of his time during recent years.

On June 15, 1887, Mr. Pittenger was united in marriage to Miss Hermine C Kraeft, a daughter of John and Caroline Kraeft, who have been residents of Oregon since 1880. Coming to this state ahnost a generation ago, when the country was much more thinly settled than at the present time, Mr. Pittenger has witnessed many remarkable changes and has assisted materially in the transformation. He is a member of Crescent Lodge No. 10, A. O. U. W., and also of the Rose City Camp, Woodmen of the World. The fraternal principles of those orders find in a man of his genial temperament a ready response. Having had varied experiences in life, Mr. Pittenger years ago learned to take a broad view of man, his duties and responsibilities, believing that in the end we all get what we earn and that true success in life belongs only to him who deserves it.

William Lind

William Lind, a well known grading contractor of Portland, was born in the state of Saratof, Russia, December 7, 1866. His parents were Jacob and Catherine (Altergott) Lind, members of a German colony, which was established over one hundred and fifty years ago by Catherine II, empress of Russia. Catherine was a German princess, a daughter of the Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst. who was also a Russian field marshal and governor of Stettin. At sixteen years of age his daughter was united in marriage to Peter III, czar of Russia, and by her request a number of German families were established in Russia under the condition that the young men would be exempt from military duty for a specified period. Her husband being assassinated, Catherine ruled as empress of Russia for thirty-four years. Her reign was remarkable for the rapid increase of Russian power. She always treated the German colony with great kindness.

William Lind remained with his parents until he was nineteen years of age. He received his education in the public schools, and then learned the flouring mill business, becoming first assistant foreman and later general foreman of the mill. At the age of nineteen, in 1885, he came to America, and after spending about a month in New Yfork city, he traveled westward as far as Denver, where he remained for about eight months. Since 1886 he has been a resident of Portland. He began in this city in the employ of paving contractors but in 1887 was connected with the Portland Flouring Mills. In 1888 he became permanently identified with the contracting business and was in charge of the first hydraulic work that was ever done in Portland, this being on Russell street eight or nine years ago. He successfully handled the contract for the big cut running from the Willamette to the Columbia rivers. This work was done for the Great Northern Railroad, and was a very large undertaking, being all laid in hydraulic cement. He has done a large amount of bridge and road work in Clarke county, Washington, and in other localities, and is known as one of the responsible contractors of the city. He is now engaged in the construction of the Riverside sewer district, one of the largest projects of its kind in the northwest. He is one of the organizers, principal stockholders, secretary and treasurer of the Pacific Coast Westonmite Company, introducing extensively the new and modern Westonmite paving, which is being demonstrated to be the most perfect paving yet devised.

In May, 1886, Mr. Lind was united in marriage to Miss Anna Schmeer, a daughter of Adam and Liza (Green) Schmeer, who were members of the same colony in Russia as Mr. Lind. Nine children were bom to the union : William, Samuel, John, Philip, George, Daniel, Wilbert, Catherine and Jennie.

Mr. and Mrs. Lind are both active members of the Congregational church and he is a member of the Herman Sohne, a Germany society of this city. He resides in a beautiful home in Irvington, where, in the midst of his family and siirrounded by his friends, he enjoys the fruits of many years of toil. He is one of the active and progressive men of western Oregon. He belongs distinctively to the type of men that "find a way or make it" wherever they are known. It would be difificult to conceive of a situation where such men would not succeed. Coming to America just as he was entering into manhood, he wisely selected as his theater of operations a new country teeming with possibilities and responsive to the touch of energy and readily yielding its resources to the hand of man. His early dreams of freedom and prosperity have here largely been realized, and as the head of a promising family, he is recognized as one of the envied citizens of an intelligent community. This position he has honestly attained through the old-fashioned application of industry and perseverance, and easily he bears his honors as one of the able representative employers of the city. As a recreation, he devotes his leisure time mainly to automobiling. He has been a republican in politics since 1896, previous to which he was affiliated with the democratic party.